--- title: Exodus 40:29 (JPS 1917) — And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle… · tree and pragmatics description: And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: Moses, LORD. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moses, LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:EXO:1256 # text = And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 burnt burn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tabernacle tabernacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 burnt burn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 40 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | Moses | the altar of burnt offering | | the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent altar=Theme at door=Destination | | 2 | **offer** | past | Moses *not said here* | the burnt offering and the meal offering | | | | upon tabernacle | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | | 3 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וְאֵת֙ מִזְבַּ֣ח הָעֹלָ֔ה שָׂ֕ם פֶּ֖תַח מִשְׁכַּ֣ן אֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֑ד וַיַּ֣עַל עָלָ֗יו אֶת־הָעֹלָה֙ וְאֶת־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ס [Exodus 40:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1256` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Exodus 40:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1255/) - next →: [Exodus 40:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1257/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 40:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.29/)